j’s scratchpad

The ResourceShelf and Docuticker have new feed URLs (and new looks!).
ResourceShelf: http://www.resourceshelf.com/feed/
DocuTicker: http://www.docuticker.com/?feed=rss2

I went to a really cool event Monday night at the Museum of Science about science news. As part of the event, one of the presenters mentioned the museum’s podcasts. After the event, I had the opportunity to talk to her. She mentioned she was interested in networking with more bloggers, so I told her […]

Pardon me while I have one of those “Well, duh” mixed with “It’s about time” moments. For fun, I hand coded a podcast feed. Not too bad.
Yeah, I’m definitely the kind of person who learns by doing.
I admit that I cheated. I took a feed from a different podcast and rewrote it. For the real […]

Jenny, The Shifted Librarian and a member of the RSS Advisory Board, shares her perspective on changing the common orange XML button to a symbol she thinks makes more sense to indicate syndication.
On the Feedster blog, James writes about one of the challenges to using XML feeds is getting people to recognize that they’re actually […]

Stephen Abram’s column in the March 2006 Information Outlook, the Special Libraries Association’s magazine, is all about podcasting, including a long list of useful links.
Darlene Fichter has an article about using XML feeds on Web sites in April’s issue.
Not only are these two articles restricted to association members, but they require viewers to run ebrary […]

Steven and Ken are writing a bit about how aggregating content changes serendipity.
One of my grad school professors taught us quite a bit about the importance of serendipity. I appreciate serendipity in real life. Many of my blog posts come from getting stuck in the pluff mud–what my friend Bob and I call following a […]

DoIt (my Dad always loved that acronym for the Division of Information Technology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Go, Badgers!) has a cool site about podcasting with how tos and whys for educators.
noticed on a discussion list ages ago

RSS4Lib features Netherlands-based Feed XS, a tool which allows people to create the content for RSS feeds, to publish something directly as a feed. It’s a way of making a feed without using some software platform, like blog software, to do it.
Why publish just a feed? Well, I learned about a year ago about people […]

The radio show Car Talk now offers its puzzler and new columns via RSS.
(Yes, the typo is intentional. I’m trying hard to be funny.)

Thomas Gale adds podcasts to some of their resources.